Chicheley / Cicelai / Chechele / Chichele
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: [NB: what appears to be an odd addition to the side of the tower is the chancel]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2012 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2868615] [accessed 17 February 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast end
![EXT SE END digital photograph taken 25 March 2012 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2868615] [accessed 17 February 2016] [NB: what appears to be an odd little addition to the tower side is the chancel]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160217016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT SE END digital photograph taken 25 March 2012 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2868615] [accessed 17 February 2016] [NB: what appears to be an odd little addition to the tower side is the chancel]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Jeffrey, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Philip Jeffrey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3599711] [accessed 17 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17353CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Hall Lane, Chicheley, Milton Keynes MK16 9JH
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A509, 4 km NE of Newport Pagnell
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mulsoe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Chicheley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9045/chicheley/] [accessed 17 February 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes: "the octagonal font is large and ancient". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The plan of the present building appears to be the result of successive additions to a 12th-century church [...] The aisle and tower have been recently restored." [NB: there is no mention of a font in the VCH; did the old font reported in Sheahan get replaced in the restoration noted in the VCH?]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.10404, -0.68023
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 14.54″ N, 0° 40′ 48.83″ W
UTM: 30U 658873 5775149
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862